"Tickets, in the JIRA mindset, are taken on, focused on until complete, and then passed on, never to be seen again. They have a one-way lifecycle: specification

"Tickets, in the JIRA mindset, are taken on, focused on until complete, and then passed on, never to be seen again. They have a one-way lifecycle: specification; design; development; testing; release. Doesn’t that sound a little … um … waterfall-y?" It does, because when cold, hard reality hits, the waterfall workflow is the one and only way to system engineer high quality software; there is nothing else and there never was any other technique to achieve that. Agile is a gimmick to give non-engineers free reign, carte blache to keep on hacking like mad until something somewhere finally starts half-working; that's the hard reality of the IT industry.